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Steven Gerrard has been linked with two clubs in the Championship— Wrexham and Birmingham City — and one of his former Liverpool teammates believes that he could still get back on a road that eventually leads back to Anfield.
Gerrard's senior managerial career started in 2018 when he took over at Rangers. He had previously worked with Liverpool's U18s and later joined Aston Villa in 2021.
Two years later, he moved to Al Ettifaq in Saudi Arabia. However, the 45-year-old has been out of work since leaving the Saudi Pro League in January of this year by mutual consent.
Wrexham plays Birmingham later today with both ambitious teams in mid-table in the second tier. Phil Parkinson and Chris Davies are the men in charge of the two sides respectively at the moment.
"It's important that if you sign for a club, you need to know where you want to go and what the club's ambitions are," Gerrard's former Liverpool teammate Vladimir Smicer told Boyle Sports.
"It's not good to sign for a club that is financially struggling and has no future. Of course, Steven Gerrard has been a fantastic player, one of the best players I played with.
"But as a manager, as I said, he's still very young. His name is big in England, Europe, and world football. Stevie is fantastic.
"I know his mentality, he's a winner. He definitely wants to go to a club where he feels he has a chance to win games, be a strong team, and build something.
"So if they show him plans for the future and he feels it's achievable, it's interesting for him.
"But it must have a future, it must have ambition. People sometimes ask me if he can one day be the manager of Liverpool. And I'm saying yes, I think one day Stevie G can be a manager of Liverpool.
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"He would be a very good manager of Liverpool in my opinion. But we'll see in the future. He needs to have some success with a team.
"Could it be Birmingham or Wrexham, maybe. But if he has success, why not Liverpool one day?"
Liverpool.com says: Gerrard ending up at Anfield feels a long way away. His move to Saudi Arabia effectively put an end to that. A return, if he does go back into management, would almost certainly have to be in the second division. Things didn't go that well at Aston Villa and the job that Unai Emery has done since has only highlighted that further.
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